| Kirk Alderfer | 26 Jul 2011 7:02 a.m. PST |
Saw this over at Fantastic Plastic. A little big for the tabletop, but definately cool. link
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| Mako11 | 26 Jul 2011 7:20 a.m. PST |
Well, a space station should be sufficiently impressive! It'd be great as a backdrop to some spacefighter battles. |
| Battle Works Studios | 26 Jul 2011 8:01 a.m. PST |
Really big station (or ship) minis are often a problem to game with, but I have seen some clever workarounds to solve the problem. One guy I used to game with had a lighting rack over his gaming table and built his uberstation (a Death Star clone over 2' in diameter) so that it could be suspended over the table at a height that let ships maneuver underneath it comfortably. Darned intimidating having it hanging over the table while our relatively puny ships were slugging it out. You could maybe do something similar with a tall enough flight stand (or stands, more likely) but the suspended version had the advantage of not eating up any table space at all. |
| PapaSync | 26 Jul 2011 10:26 a.m. PST |
Can anyone say…."2001 a Space Odyssey" Well that's another movie prediction that ain't coming true. 8) |
 Parzival  | 26 Jul 2011 12:37 p.m. PST |
"That's no moon…" "Uhm… nobody said it was." "Well, I'm just saying. In case anybody was confused or anything." "It's a great big double wheel with spokes and spaceships flying out of the center of it. What idiot would confuse that with a moon?" "The same sort of idiot who would confuse a parsec with a unit of time." "Touché." 
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| Farstar | 26 Jul 2011 12:40 p.m. PST |
that's another movie prediction that ain't coming true. Not soon, anyway. We're still having trouble keeping something a fraction of that size from leaking like a sieve. It's not a bad model for an intermediate stage orbital station, though. |
| javelin98 | 26 Jul 2011 3:21 p.m. PST |
I've had plans to build one of those for Starmada for years, but so far this is the closest I've gotten:
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| Battle Works Studios | 26 Jul 2011 5:10 p.m. PST |
Still a fine job, Javelin. |
| kabrank | 27 Jul 2011 2:08 a.m. PST |
Javelin Who is the manufacturer of the space ship. Thanks |
| javelin98 | 27 Jul 2011 9:55 a.m. PST |
Thanks, BWS! @kabrank: That's a UNSC dreadnought from Ground Zero Games. I think they've gone to a newer style, but if you contact them they might be able to hook you up. |
| Covert Walrus | 06 Aug 2011 7:50 p.m. PST |
And if they can't Kabrank, Eureka Miniatures still make that style under license. |
| Battle Works Studios | 07 Aug 2011 2:00 a.m. PST |
GZG's UNSC (and Japanese) ships are OOP pending mold replacement, but AFAIK there are no plans to do a new style of them (ala NAC, ESU, etc) when they return. The IJN and UNSC fleets are arguably the first two of his "new generation" sculpts, so it's not surprising that their molds wore down first – ESU and New Israeli are probably getting close to needing a new set as well if age is any indication. Last I'd heard Jon was still hoping to get them back in production sometime this year. Eureka still has both of them for sale in the interim, as mentioned. |
